Use it up! Don't throw it in the bin!

kippers

Thanks candylucy, i'll try that, it sounds lovely

BigMummaF

I had boiled some beef bones up for Pup & kept the resultant stock & dripping in the fridge. Yesterday, I needed a really quick dinner, so Pup had the stock with a weenie bit of mince, mixed veg & coucous for his tea, while I used the dripping to do fried bread & a couple of eggs for the offspring's 'cowboys breakfast'.

This morning I have a two-litre-ice-cream-tub sized space in the fridge, an estaticially happy pooch & two offspring who truly appreciate the appeal of 'proper' food:D

littleredheadedgirl'75

kippers wrote: »

I've just found 100grams of ground almonds that need to be used by the end of this month...any ideas?

as a thickener in a sauce like curry or in a face mask?

Murrell

FairyElephant wrote: »

Tye-dying perhaps?????
I know when I used to dye stuff we used vinegar to 'fix' the colour, so maybe you would dye & fix all in one go!

I'm not altogether joking - I have a white vest top which has a mark on it from beetroot that even bleach wouldn't shift, so I was thinking of trying something similar next time we have beetroot, but we don''t have it in vinegar as OH prefers it in it's own juice.

Thanks for the suggestion. If i need anything pink, i know what to do know. But my hubbie gets thouugh so much beetroo, i would end up with more than I need for dying. So next time I stain a white top, i will experiment!!
Thanks
Sandra

Mags_cat

Long time lurker decloaking to say how great this thread is!

I've been following it since it started and have used so many of your tips and recipies - thanks everyone! :T

Today I had home made soup (stock from a roast chicken carcass and end of the week veggies from the fridge) for lunch.

Tonight, I really fancied bubble 'n squeak - but hadn't made the usual roast to get the leftovers - if you see what I mean. So I roasted some potatoes, parsnips and carrot and boiled some cabbage specially. Unfortunately, they looked rather good whole - so they got smothered in gravy and eaten as they were....

I suppose I saved the extra power it would've taken to fry them...feeble, I know :rotfl:

Murrell

2cats1kid wrote: »

Could you use the beetrooty vinegar in a salad dressing, like a vinaigrette? Or in sweet and sour sauce - would give it a nice colour with the tomato you put into that. Basically I'd just use it as normal vinegar, only a girly colour!

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestions. I don't normally use vinegar apart from on chips and in cakes instead of eggs. So will have to experiment and see if I can use beetroot vinegar instead.

Thanks a lot
Sandra

highland_fling_2

hi Murrell,
curious about how you substitute vinegar for eggs in some cakes. I only ever use vinegar when making pavlova. would you be willing to share some of your recipes please.

keep_trying_3

Yesterday I used up leftover fruit salad by turning it into a crumble. I removed most of the oranges and orange juice and was basically left with apples and a little juice. I put that in a greased baking tin and added a little sugar and a crumble topping. When baked it was lovely and caramelised from the extra orange juice. I may add juice to all my crumbles from now on.

EssexHebridean

Argh! Discovered this morning that the bottom of our fridge has gone ridiculolusly cold and that I had a handful of almost frozen carrots down there so they are now sitting waiting for the next trip to the compost bin. :mad: I've shifted the thermometer down there so I can see if the temperature setting needs adjustment.

FairyElephant_2

No food waste for me this weekend!

Not even any bones as were out for the day yesterday so didn't make 'proper Sunday dinner' - we had the veggies with 'mustard mash' potato, slices of roast beef from the freezer and gravy. DH, Stepkids + MIL - all clean plates! - thing is they ate ALL the mash and I thought I'd made enough for today as well!
Will have to do pasta with the 'minced beef & bean bolognaise' I guess (DH will eat 'bolognaise' so I make lots of variations on it, without actually telling him what is in it - you can disguise all sorts of leftovers with minced beef in a tomato sauce LOL!!!!!).
Compost bin got the spud peelings & cabbage stump (well, the bit that was too hard to munch on anyway).

Got a few strawberries starting to look sad in the fridge, and a melon I got cheap last week as it was on it's date, so a 'fruity' evening in store methinks!